After Miami foreclosure attorney Bruce Jacobs agreed to write an appellate brief for an ill colleague, he begged off making the oral argument before the Third District Court of Appeal in October.

Jacobs, who hosts “Debt Warriors with Bruce Jacobs” on WZAB, 880 AM The Biz, was smarting from an order to show cause issued by the appellate court earlier this year in another foreclosure case after a bank admitted not owning his client’s mortgage the day before oral argument.